Comments on: A Challenge to Con-Loving, Web-Savvy Fans

By: Jacob P. Silvia

Jacob P. Silvia — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:05:34 +0000

Here’s some helpful links (I think): http://code.google.com/apis/maps/ and http://code.google.com/apis/calendar/.

This would effectively free you from having to host the database or set up user authentication.

I wish I had time to work on this!

By: Nathan E. Lilly

Nathan E. Lilly — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:46:48 +0000

It’s been up all day yesterday. So it’s looks like it’s good to go. I’m going to begin promoting it to fan groups.

BTW: I added a credit to JJ in the foot of the page (along with some other minor changes).

By: Nathan E. Lilly

Nathan E. Lilly — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:40:25 +0000

I’m getting reports that the service is down (actually, all my sites are down). Apparently my host moved a server cluster which has yet to be completely fixed. I’m sure it will be soon.

By: Senses Five Press

Senses Five Press — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:49:55 +0000

[...] over at John J. Adams’ blog, John said: You know what some web-savvy fan should do? Gather up data on all of the science [...]

By: Matt Kressel

Matt Kressel — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:46:04 +0000

Hey, that’s great! I’m going to blog about it. Is there any way you can increase the search range, maybe an optional field? A date range would be cool too. Also, perhaps a global map like this:

http://pear.php.net/map/

So we can get a visual sense of all the cons?

This is great, though, thanks!

By: Nathan E. Lilly

Nathan E. Lilly — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 03:33:12 +0000

Here you go: http://www.greententacles.com/services/confinder/

Granted, being all of an hour old, it’s still pretty useless until people begin submitting their cons.

FYI: Just so you know who this is: I was the guy identified as “The Guy Who Doesn’t Talk” by the Mormon girl in NY.

By: Matt Kressel

Matt Kressel — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:01:42 +0000

That’s a bang up idea. You could even have a world map with cons highlighted. Of course, I’m too busy to maintain such a thing…